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"It occurs to me that, having started music lessons at the age of six, I could be said to have a lot of experience and training at this. Current ideas I have about music may have their basis in schemes and dreams I shared with many other people, mostly on the high plains of Texas. I remember Bobby Massey, Rick and Lannie Fiel, Jamie Howell, Little Adger, Keith Ferguson and East Side Slim. Here's sand in your ears, old friends."

Cowdrey is one of the men responsible for holding real blues together in Austin, Texas, and one of the few Austin's east side musicians started playing "Shaft," Junior Wells and Johnny Taylor. Watch out as Lewis comes at you from any (and every) angle. Come out of the blues and into the soul...